eighteen months

Our girl turned 18 months old on Sunday!  She had her 18 month check up with the doctor on Monday, and here are her stats:

Height: 32 1/2 in (50-75th percentile)

Weight: 22.5 lbs (10-25th percentile)

Head: 18 in (25th percentile)

Here are some pictures of our 18-month-old last night...

She loves sitting up against something and playing...

Cereal with Daddy.  Harper loves cereal, and loves whenever her daddy has some because he always shares with her.  I don't think he has a choice :)

Precious.

In honor of my precious daughter being 18 months old, here are 18 things that I love about you, my darling girl.  I love...

1.  Finding toys in drawers, sippy cups in cabinets, my bracelets in the closet, etc.

2.  Your hugs (love-love) and kisses (followed by a muah!).

3.  Your dancing whenever you hear any kind of music - a toy, a commercial, a cell phone, anything.  You love to dance in the car when I have the radio on and it is so cute.  You also love to be held and danced with.  I LOVE this!

4.  How when you are about to get something that you really want like a sip of diet coke or a piece of chocolate, you pop that binky right out of your mouth and start giggling in a high-pitched voice.

5.  How you love to wear our shoes.  You come out of our closet (leaving something behind that you had previously been playing with) with a pair of shoes and want us to help you put them on.  Daddy's boots and flip flops are the funniest.

6.  How shoes and socks ALWAYS come off in the car, no matter how long or short the trip.

7.  That you call out "Bye!" as I walk out the door after putting you to bed.  It just makes me want to run back in there and scoop you up and love all over you again!

8.  That you are so loving, and let us love all over you.

9.  How you love to hold my hand in the car.  The majority of the time, I am driving with one hand in the back seat holding your hand.  I will treasure that sweetness forever.

10. How you say "Mmmm!" whenever you take a bite of something good.  And it's not just the first bite - it is every bite.

11. Your giggles when I kiss all over your face, ears, and neck.  Then in the middle of all this you put your hands around my head and pull my face to yours and just sit.  Oh, my heart.

12. How you push the button on the DVD player that makes the tray come out, and you put a remote on it, then push the button to make it go back in, and you don't understand why the remote won't go in, too.

13. How whenever I am on my hands and knees doing something (usually cleaning your mess :) ), you come up behind me and hug me.

14. How you love to be chased.  You'll start to run off, but you look back over your shoulder, letting me know to come chase you.  This entertains you far longer than my lungs can stand, but I love it so much!

15. What Daddy loves about you: you make him happy.

16. I love that I will never forget the moment I saw your beautiful face for the first time.  It will forever be one of my most treasured memories.  You changed me in that instant.

17. How you have opened up my eyes to how much my Momma and Daddy love me, and why they would go to the ends of the Earth for me.  Your Daddy and I will do the same for you...

18. And how you have opened up my eyes to how much our heavenly Father loves us.  You are such a blessing to this family, and we are thankful everyday for you and grateful for this opportunity to be your parents.  My heart is so full. We love you so much, Harper Rebecca!